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trdebruin
Dec 05, 2019Copper Contributor
=LINEST help
Hello everyone! I am currently trying to make an excel sheet for myself that will automatically calculate all the statistics and stuff when I enter my results. I use =LINEST to determine the slope a...
mathetes
Dec 05, 2019Gold Contributor
There may be a number of ways to solve your problem. Without actually seeing your sheet, we're taking a stab in relative darkness. So if what I'm going to suggest doesn't work, then I'd strongly recommend you upload a sample of your worksheet, assuming you can do so without revealing any proprietary info.
What occurs to me is that you could use as a source for your LINEST function a named range. (Insert....Name...) and have an OFFSET function that designates the size of the range. You could most simply just have two cells that indicate horizontal and vertical ranges from the anchor cell (upper left corner)....
Now, if none of that makes any sense, please upload a sample of your spreadsheet.
What occurs to me is that you could use as a source for your LINEST function a named range. (Insert....Name...) and have an OFFSET function that designates the size of the range. You could most simply just have two cells that indicate horizontal and vertical ranges from the anchor cell (upper left corner)....
Now, if none of that makes any sense, please upload a sample of your spreadsheet.